By properly choosing the parameters, the diffracted beam can be deflected out of the laser resonant cavity, thereby providing an energy loss which is sufficient to Q-spoil the cavity.

Soundings showed wide variations in depths of water, and from the dredgings of the bottom came new types of sediment […]

Physicians somnambulize their patients and extract teeth literally without pain.

A sneaker was originally a smaller drinking mug or beaker than was ordinarily used, and was drunk from by a sneak-cup, that contemptible creature who wished to shrink from his convivial duties by balking his drink, or, to speak plainly, who wished to drink less than his companions fancied he ought to. It came gradually to be used as the name of a small mug, and as such frequently appears in the inventories of china made and sold at Worcester. Washington was no sneak-cup, he boldly and liberally ordered large mugs instead of pint sneakers.